new (and hopefully better) photos of thing

[boojagirl]

here is the thing from different angles.

 

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[Rob66]

Old fishing reel..gear

 

[artemis moon]

just an uneducated guess-telegraph machine thingy (tap, tap, tap)

 

[Ant]

Old fishing reel..gear

Yeap, sort of looks like the innards of a (zebco) closed face spinning reel.

 

[Jim West Pa]

Hey Boojagirl, i'll hafta stand corrected if needed but sure looks like a scratch off ticket(hope it's a winner fer ya), and cd of sorts.
Sorry girl could'nt help it.Pic is still very blurry. But seriously, without a clearer pic, i'd have to put my cash dollars on a some type of thermocoupler.(?) at this point.

 

[boojagirl]

Hey Boojagirl, i'll hafta stand corrected if needed but sure looks like a scratch off ticket(hope it's a winner fer ya), and cd of sorts.
Sorry girl could'nt help it.Pic is still very blurry. But seriously, without a clearer pic, i'd have to put my cash dollars on a some type of thermocoupler.(?) at this point.

yea it is a scratch off, I like playing them, that one was a looser, I keep the winners together to bring in and get more.

 

[Ant]

That thing is the innards of a badly abuse door chime. The solenoid/plunger side that still has wire on it would be the front door, and would go "ding dong".

The solenoid/plunger side that is missing its winding would be the rear door, and would just go "ding"

My previous post said, "sort of looks like".
But you nailed it. I can clearly see the solenoid plunger and part of the windings. Yeap, when the solenoid is activated it actuates the plunger into one chime, and when it is deactivated by releasing the doorbell button, the plunger returns and hits the other chime. That set-up has been around for decades.

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

Old starter solenoid